The Spirit Of Rooster: How Winning Is Done

What happens when you are told that you have a life threatening cancer? How do you cope with this monster? How do you tell loved ones? Where do you find the emotional strength to fight it? What painful treatment lies ahead? Will you survive? Will it return? The author was unfortunate enough to confront these questions following his bowel cancer diagnosis in 2017. “Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart and it cannot touch my soul.” (Jim Valvano)“How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning gets done.” (Rocky Balboa)This book is a diarised, real and brutally honest account of suffering, treatment, adversity and laughter. It is not for the faint-hearted, equally explicit in describing medical procedures and human bodily functions. Humour sustained Hans throughout intense sadness, so these two emotions are served up in equal measures. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” (Nelson Mandela)You have been warned. Do you have the courage to enter?